Spring bed-bottom



(No Model.) r I I F. W. SMITH 8v G. D. LIVINGSTON.

SPRING BED BOTTOM.

No. 368,023 Patented Aug. 9-, 1887..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK W. SMITH AND GEORGE D. LIVINGSTON, OF DODGE CENTRE, MINNESOTA.

SPRING BED-BOTTOM.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,023, dated August 9, 1887.

Application filed March 19, 1887.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK W. SMITH and GEORGE, D. LIVINGSTON, both of Dodge Centre, in the county of Dodge and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spring Bed-Bottoms, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to the devices employed for holding the removable cover of a spring bed-bottom in position over the springs, and has for its object to provide new and useful improvements therein, whereby the cover will be drawn taut over the springs and held therewith from displacement, while it can be readily applied and easily detached for cleaning and other purposes.

The invention consists in certain novel features embodied in our improved cover-fastening device, as hereinafter fully described, and then definitely claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 isa perspective plan view of a bedbottom, illustrating my improvement applied. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of part of the cover, showing one corner folded to adapt it for engagement with the fastening-hook; and Fig. 3 is a perspective View showing a folded corner of the cover thus engaged.

A designates a bed-bottom frame of usual construction; B, its inner side rails; (3, the cross-slats resting thereon, and D, the coiled springs supported on the slats 0, all in the ordinary manner.

On the inner corner-posts, E, of the frame A are held fixedly pointed hooks F somewhat below the level of the tops of the springs D, which hooks are adapted to engage the folded corners of the usual canvas cover, G, when spread over the springs.

In orderthat the fastening-hooksF may not tear out, we form a fold at each corner, as in- Serial No. 231,585. (No model.)

dicated in Fig. 3,, a small square portion of the cover at each corner being folded downward and inward, the inner edges, G, of the square being brought together, and the edge portions of the cover G hanging downward to completely inclose the springs, and then pass the hook F through the four or more thicknesses at the corner and near the upper end, G of thesame.

The cover being stretched taut over the springs, as in Fig. 1, the hooks F,being slightly below the tops of the springs, draw down on the cover, so as to compress somewhat the springs, and at the same time, being engaged with the upper parts of the corner folds,they hold both the cover and the springs from lateral displacement. The cover,being unfolded when detached, can be laundered as it stands.

We are aware that fabric covers for spring bed'bottoms have heretofore been folded at the corners to set down over the springs, and have been held in place by hooks and other catches engaging separable eyes and the like attached to the folded corners of the fabric; but we are not aware that fasteninghooks have before been passed through the corner folds of the cover fabric, as pointed out in the following claim, and with the advantages hereinbcfore set forth.-

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a spring bed-bottom, the combination,

a with the frame and springs, of a cover stretched over the springs and folded at its corners,and hooks held in the corners of the frame and passed through the folds of the fabric of which the cover is made at the corners of the cover, substantially as shown and described.

FRANK W. SMITH. GEORGE D. LIVINGSTON.

Witnesses:

J ESSIE Erscron, M. R. DRESBAOH. 

